Representing Reality: Discourse, Rhetoric and Social ConstructionSAGE, 1996年8月13日 - 264 頁 `This is an admirable book which can be recommended to students with confidence, and is likely also to become an indispensable source of reference for those researching fact construction′ - Discourse & Society How is reality manufactured? The idea of social construction has become a commonplace of much social research, yet precisely what is constructed, and how, and even what constructionism means, is often unclear or taken for granted. In this major work, Jonathan Potter offers a fascinating tour of the central themes raised by these questions. Representing Reality overviews the different traditions in constructionist thought. Points are illustrated throughout with varied and engaging examples taken from newspaper stories, relationship counselling sessions, accounts of the paranormal, social workers′ assessments of violent parents, informal talk between programme makers, political arguments and everyday conversations. Ranging across the social and human sciences, this book provides a lucid introduction to several key strands of work that have overturned the way we think about facts and descriptions, including: the sociology of scientific knowledge; conversation analysis and ethnomethodology; and semiotics, post-structuralism and postmodernism. |
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... notion of an economy of truth serves as an appropriate metaphor for the topic of this book . Like money on the international markets , truth can be treated as a commodity which is worked up , can fluctuate , and can be strengthened or ...
... notions , the business of building up a description as a fact . Specificity versus Universalism One of the tensions in this book is that between specificity and generality . I will argue that to understand the way factual accounts are ...
... notion of footing - for example , is the speaker claiming or merely reporting ? This has an important role in fact construction . The discussion here concentrates on the way neutrality with respect to a claim may be built up or ...
... notion that scientific beliefs are bound together in complex networks ; and an emphasis on scientific communities and practices . Observations and Theories One of the most powerful and bewitching ways of understanding facts has been to ...
... notion of a web of beliefs is a very abstract one . Kuhn's important modification was to stress that such a network does not hang in some abstract conceptual space , but is embodied in the knowledge and practices of specific groups of ...
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3 Semiology PostStructuralism Postmodernism | 68 |
4 Discourse and Construction | 97 |
5 Interests and Category Entitlements | 122 |
6 Constructing OutThereNess | 150 |
7 Working Up Representations | 176 |
8 Criticizing Facts | 202 |
Appendix | 233 |
References | 235 |
Index | 248 |